Mark Davis is giving every appearance of being his father's son. His rule of the Oakland Raiders might be as wild and unpredictable as Al Davis, whose maverick tendencies made him the scourge of the National Football League and a hero to anti-establishment types.

It was surprising enough when Davis allowed his new general manager to make a stunning decision Tuesday. But his pronouncements on the future of the franchise are what has the football world talking.

Mark Davis wants the Raiders in a modern stadium, something shiny—not their long-time home, the Oakland Coliseum. And he wants it now.

"The timetable is yesterday," Davis said at Tuesday's media session. "So that's where it is. We've got to get a stadium. We've got to get that done."

If Oakland isn't going to deliver, Davis has a couple cards he is willing to play:

—He will move the Raiders to San Jose and be a joint tenant with the San Francisco 49ers.

—He will move the Raiders back to Los Angeles.

Is that you, Al?

The old man pulled his team out of Oakland between 1982 and 1994 and parked it in L.A., putting competition in the United States' second-biggest TV market with the Los Angeles Rams.

Then he tweaked the league again, moving back to Oakland.

And now the son follows the father with suggestion of packing up and relocating again to greener (dollars, natch) pastures.

It hasn't happened yet, and Davis said talks with L.A. interests had not been fruitful. Staying in the Bay Area remains a possibility, and Davis is working all the angles.

"We're trying to get something done up here, but if we can't, we've got to get something done somewhere because we need to be able to compete," he said. "And that's where it's at."